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Object Additions/Improvements
- Chart/Graph Objects
- Create the possibility to put both the y-value and the relative percentage value in the chart. Now, you can only do one of them.
- Fix the X-axis staying with-in the graph boundary (current bug, worked in Paradox 5)
- Line Size/Marker size stays the same when the number of data points increases to 50 (Current Bug, worked in Paradox 5)
- Support of graphs with thousands of points. Why can't you display a years worth of daily values for 3-5 items? (Current Bug, worked in Paradox 5)
- X-Y Graphs with dates as the X-axis
- Dual Y-axises
- Field Objects
- Graphical drop down list, combo box with icons.
- Have a max length property for undefined fields
- Allow vars to be used in calc fields
- Allow calc fields to set properties
- Better control over text formatting, when added text to a fMemo be able to control style, BOLD, UNDERLINE, etc. COLORS!
- Additional field attributes specifying a replacement form for lookup actions supporting single and multiple selections returned in a dynArray. When using a replacement lookup form, a new action like DataCustomLookup is invoked with an event property for accessing the dynArray. Additionally, a replacement keyboard sequence for the ctrl-spacebar could also be specified.
- Decision trees for calculated fields, like in Borland's ancient ObjectVision (a now 10 years old program which my company still runs besides and in conjunction with Paradox for major Applications!)! [Forms have never been so easy to be built since then!])
- Allow bound fields to be defined as calculated fields so that the calculation result is stored in the table (rather than having to use ObjectPAL for this)
- Combo fields: option to drop up or drop down
- DropDown : auto drop up or down
- DropDown : Smart Length Property ie. If you choose 20 Items , and the position on your Form Will only allow you to see 15 it defaults to 15.
- Hint Boxes
- Hint boxes that you can control text wrapping and formatting in, size, color, hyperlink...
- MRO, Tableframe and Tableview
- A setRowPosition option on record posting / unlocking, this moves the record to the desired row position in the table frame, if possible (had this is Paradox DOS I think, called setRecordPostion).
- It would be nice to have a record and record number indication when you're in a tableview which is filtered. That would show like 'Record 4 of 6 (filtered)'. Now, you can only guess... I believe Access has this feature already built in.
- In table views, tableframes and MROs, there's a small feature that would be a welcome addition: in the contextual menu, modify the "Filter" choice (F6), so that it offers not only a dialog box to type in a filter expression, but a set of predefined choices:
- Records with this value
- Records without this value
- Remove filter on this field
- Edit filter on this field (which would open the current dialog box)
- Remove all filters on this table
- If this is on a form: Remove all filters on all tables in the form
Simple but efficient. Access has only part (most of) of this feature set, Paradox has only one currently.
- Ability to bind a Tableframe/MRO to tcursor at runtime
- New Objects
- Tree-view object (real one that looks like the one in Windows Explorer)
- Notepages
- Would like to be able to specify note tabs to be on the sides and have more shapes.
- OCX/ActiveX
- Improved OCX/ActiveX compatibility
- Properties
- A hyperlink property (this may have need added in 10?), so text, any text or field can be a hyperlink, true or false. Better than what version 8 and 9 did. Or a hyperlink object?
- Be able to set alignment to decimal place
- Be able to have a variable number of decimals display
- Vertical text, a rotate text angle property, curved text.
- Zoom to fit at runtime property for text objects, so the text stretches to fit height and/or width.
- Scrollbars
- Scroll bars that can act the same when filtered, the elevator adjusts size and doesn't sit in center.
- Be able to customize scroll bars, besides wide or not wide.
- Add end of table or top of table and page up and page down arrow buttons to scroll bars.
- Tableframes
- More control over columns, color, a design option to fit to maximum field (data) width.
- Ability to pin a column, so it can't rotate or can't be horizontally scrolled off.
- Be able to make a column invisible
- Switching indexes by clicking on TF header (or given a choice of indexes to switch to)
- Record highlighting in table frames
- Table Frame Row Highlighting, similar to the way it works in Delphi (set one property to highlight entire row; set one more property to make the highlight visible even when another object has focus).
- Single tableframes that can be displayed in a form in pieces ... i.e. rather than have horizontal scroll bar or have a few fields in field objects.
- Resizable Table frames (at least horizontally) at runtime
- In a TableFrame, have the possibility of placing totals at the bottom of the TableFrame. The Totals should be part of the TableFrame, as the last row, and always visible. That way, in a form with a TableFrame and with an horizontal scrolling bar, the totals would scroll with the columns and stay whit the fields they belong.
- Toolbars
- Allow custom graphics on toolbar buttons
- Allow toolbar buttons to execute more than just menuActions (like launching ProView)
- Web Server OCX
- Corel Web Server OCX enhancements
- Windows
- Nameable screen positions and zones. Currently if one has many forms that have to appear in a set position one can have a table listing the position in twips or whatever and the form name so that one can interactively read off the position and open the form there. However if one needs to change that position it would be nice to have been able to NAME a position so that one only needs to redefine the named position once (and one would then be storing form name and position name in the table).
Similarly with form sizes if one needs to resize a series of similar forms it would be able to name a size or even a zone (position and size).
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Page 2: Miscellaneous
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Page 5: ObjectPAL Language
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Page 7: Tools/Experts/Interactive Features
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